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eBook creator
By Louis Molina (free books in iBooks, limited time)

Tools
Scrivener
Book creator - iPad app
iBooks Author - Mac Only
Pages - iPad or Mac
Creative book builder - iPad


Aggregators

He turns it into an ebook and sells it for you: 70/30% (you get the most)

Smashwords
Lulu
Graphicly - charge $200 will disperse to everyone and will print books for more $
Apple - write it, set it up, get an ISBN# for $5
ePub bud for ISBN #


Amazon - word format

Two forms of publishing
Ativist - publish on a website
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Mobile devices and Byod
Edmodo code: cs0058
Stephanie Middleton

Constructivist theory
Each student customizes how they will use the device in their classes
Ensures parent permission

Resources:
Liz Kolb book: Toys to Tools
Online articles
Her aup is in the Edmodo group
Find examples, use your students' uses
Device survey, different sections for different devices
Take time to teach the apps
Use computers for the same skills at the Same time as the apps

5 ways for improvement
Homework turn in- setting good alarms
Enhanced notes thru Evernote
Quizlet, kaka flash cards, flash cards+, quiz card light - vocab apps (use what's already created)
Poll everywhere, qr codes use to ask questions, link to the news stories, or TED talks
Content vocab
Lesson engagement
Test scores
Device notes, students type faster


Interactive museum makers
Edmodo code: cs9080

  • Make interactive videos and take pictures, Qr codes on exhibits to take resources back with them
  • Oral History - interview war vets to connect to the history being taught
  • Groups come up with a goal, select one exhibit and bring tools together for digital storytelling with hardware etc. editable clips ie: discovery streaming to mute audio but use video
  • Picts for learning Tech for learning
  • Podcasts/vidcasts
  • Frames: lets you add text and audio over the picture map etc

How to make ur own interactive museum
  • Find a small local museum
  • Use iPod touches iPads to capture the the content
  • Share the info with your teachers
  • Research the topics that are from background knowledge. Use world book online, gale data bases, ebsco, & Teachers domain
  • Pick an event showcases in the museum, animate it!


Gaggle school version of google
Stop picture motion
Sore your project somewhere online, website
Share your work with others, publish: Facebook
Make with word image blender, pixxy & wixie


iHistory
Edmodo Page

Mrfurgione.com

QR quest 'web quest' Lois n Clark expedition scavenger hunt, creates a task site linked with Edmodo, primary sources of journals

Task: wildlife, etc

Pic collagePicts, text, put themselves participating into the history: ie Boston tea party & Amendments

Mr Dumont's Uses
  • Twitter for debates
  • Facebook fan page links tweets
  • Edmodo ties everything together
  • Website with the icons to the social media sites set up also qr codes to take them to each site
  • Wall wisher: Post questions, videos, pictures. Each student is in charge of one amendment and makes a wall wisher
Mobile Phone Lesson Example
  • Use Google voice or work one person with texting capabilities, use the phone number with the google account, One kid finds a vocab word with definition sends it to a partner and then they act it out take a picture and send it back the teacher and she/he approves the answers

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Classdojo.com can give grades for outside activities

Divtags - templates for web design


25 tools

Gapminder - for a fact bases world view a multi functional graph. Use it to inspire questions to ask why things are the way they are

Authentic digital content
The library of congress - not just the library but tons of resource. An interactive draft of the constitution, prints, newspapers, sound recordings, film, maps
Today in history - old artifacts w resources to match the days content
Smithsonian
Ourdocuments.gov
Wikipedia has an archive of docs

Music Learning
Go Galileo
Shakespeare

Video enhancing
Vialouges - merges social media
Popcorn maker layering links quotes and text maps
Layar bring your print to life

Way back machine put in a URL and it will show snapshots of websites back many years

Customization
Stumble upon - discover great resources videos

Flippedlearning.org - lots of content and resources with news stories of flipped classrooms

TED Ed - new educational TED talks, they also put YOur lessons online for you



Bookmapping

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Possible Lessons
Teen book map in FL - Dif color pins for dif genres
Author study book map setting Locations
Reading and writing

Common story elements, character, setting, conflict, plot
Setting, Visual, auditory,
Use street view
Setting story development
Street view for 12 museums and Antarctica.
More than the US
Underwater tours off the Great Barrier Reef
Maps for mythical places
Google lit trips
Reading stories in the maps - Charles Cummings: The 21 Steps

Mapping activities
Comparison map, where are you to it
Reading map
Area reading map
Cross curricular book map
Literature circle: role book mapper
Author studies
Reading guide book

Stratalogica: bookmaking software


Flipped and blended learning - anything anywhere anytime

Flippedclassroom.org

Classroom from Hennepin, MN Providing college level courses for their students so they have 1-2 years of college completed before they graduate high school. external image Evernote%20Snapshot%2020130130%20095942.jpg?search=Fetc&resizeSmall&width=580

Leadership is recognizing the changing landscape and embracing it. Model the behavior you would like to see.

Tell your own story. Don't let the media do it for you.

Mix organizational needs with individual needs

Sell your brand

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